Uprooted Palestinians are at the heart of the conflict in the M.E Palestinians uprooted by force of arms. Yet faced immense difficulties have survived, kept alive their history and culture, passed keys of family homes in occupied Palestine from one generation to the next.

It was clear cold-blooded murder in response to the youth throwing a stone at his vehicle harming no one.

These type incidents happen with disturbing regularity, Palestinians murdered for any reason or none at all, accountability entirely absent, an appalling miscarriage of justice ignored in the West and by media scoundrels one-sidedly supporting Israel’s worst crimes.

Col. Shomer lied, claiming he feared for his life and acted in “self-defense,” aiming at the youth’s legs, shooting him in the head and upper body at close range.

‘Ali-Kosba was fleeing when gunned down in cold blood. He threatened no one. Shomer lethally shot him from about 10 meters away, eyewitnesses said.

According to B’Tselem, ‘Ali-Kosba’s willful murder “was immediately condoned by military commanders and government ministers…compound(ing) the gravity of the” crime.

It tells soldiers they can kill Palestinians with impunity. “(S)hooting a Palestinian stone thrower is acceptable, even desirable, even if the person is fleeing” and poses no threat.

Condoning murder assures no chance for justice. Palestine is a free-fire zone. Death or serious injury can happen any time.

Shomer and two soldiers with him left “Ali-Kosbi unattended to die. He was taken by private car to Ramallah hospital where he was pronounced clinically dead.

An independent Al-Haq human rights group investigation said ‘Ali Kosbi was a “arbitrarily shot…pos(ing) no threat to Israeli soldiers’ lives at the time of the shooting.”

Israeli soldiers killed his two brothers, Yasser and Samer, in the Qalandiya refugee camp in 2002.

On April 10, B’Tselem said Israel’s Military Advocate General closed the Shomer investigation, absolving murder like so many previous times - proving Palestinian lives don’t matter.